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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CH 4: 1 &
2 EXAM QUESTIONS
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-Guarantee passing score -23 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: Can occur when people are awake as well as they are sleeping and dreaming
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Subconcscious Awareness Question 2: Daily behavioral or physiological cycles that involve the sleep/wake cycle, body temperature, blood pressure, adn blood sugar level.
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circadian rhythms Question 3: Periodic physiological fluctuations in the body, such as the rise and fall of hormones and accelerated/decelerated cycles of brain activity, that can influence behavior.
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biological rhythms
Question 4: When we meet people we immediately and unconciously react to
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gender, age, and appearance before becoming aware of our repsonse.
Question 5: According to Freud, a reservoir of unacceptable wishes; feelings, and thoughts that are beyond conscious awareness.
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unconscious thought Question 6: Term used by William James to describe the mind as a continuous flow of changing sensations, images, thoughts, and feelings.
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Stream of Consciousness Question 7: Involves controlled processing in which individuals actively focus their efforts on attaining a goal; the most alert state of consciousness.
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High-level Consciousness Question 8: Theory that dreaming occurs when the cerebral cortex synthesizes neural signals generatee from acivity in the lower brain and that dreams result from the brain's atempts to find logic in random brain activity that occurs during sleep.
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activation-synthesis theory Question 9: Can produced by drugs, trauma, fatigue, possibly hypnosis, and sensory deprivation.
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Altered states of consciousness Question 10: According to Freud, the surface content of a dream, containing dream symbols that disguise the dream's true meaning.
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manifest content Question 11: According to Freud, a dream's hidden content; its unconscious and true meaning.
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latent content
Question 12: States of consciousness that require little attention and do not interfere with other ongoing activities. Automatic processes require less conscious effort than controlled processes.
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automatic processes Question 13: The most alert states of human consciousness; individuals actively focus their efforts toward a goal.
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controlled processes Question 14: Includes automatic processing that requires little attention as well as daydreaming.
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Lower-level consciousness Question 15: An individual's awareness of external events and internal sensatins under a condition of arousal, including awareness of the self and thoughts about one's experiences.
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Conciousness Question 16: States of consciousness that require little attention and do not interfere with ongoing activities. Automatic processes require less conscious effort than controlled processes.
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Automatic processes Question 17: A small brain structure that uses input from the retina to synchronize its own rhythm with the daily cycle of light and dark; the body's way of monitoring the change from day to night.
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suprachiasmatic nucleus (scn)
Question 18: An active stage of sleep during which dreaming occurs.
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REM sleep
Question 19: choosing to attend to stimuli that draws our attention
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pop-out phenomenon Question 20: Theory proposing that we can understand dreaming by applying the same cognitive concepts we use in studying the waking mind.
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cognitive theory of dreaming Question 21: According to Freud, a reservoir of unacceptable wishes, feelings, and thoughts that are beyond conscious awareness .
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Unconscious thought Question 22: The most alert states of human consciousness; individuals actively focus their efforts toward a goal.
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Controlled processes Question 23: Freud's belief that some unconcious thoughts are too laden with anxiety and other negative emotions for consciousness to admit them.
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No awareness